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"The official electronic newsletter for NCLA" |
August 2000, volume 2, no. 4 |
A WORD FROM NCLA PRESIDENT AL JONES
The NCLA Executive Board met July 21, 2000, at the almost brand new Greensboro Public Library. Minutes of this productive meeting will appear in the Fall 2000 issue of North Carolina Libraries that will appear in your mailboxes around November.
New NCLA Headquarters
Maureen Costello, NCLA Administrative Assistant, has completed the long-awaited move from the basement of the State Library Building to new space in the Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped on Capitol Boulevard. Her mailing address has not changed. It will continue to be: Maureen Costello, NCLA, 4646 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-4646. NCLA now has a FAX number (919-839-6253) in addition to the regular line (919-839-6252).
Commission on School Librarians
The Commission has not met since its third meeting that was held at the Greensboro Public Library on June 3, 2000.
I am planning on sending out a questionnaire to the members of NCLA to ascertain their opinions regarding (1) North Carolina Libraries, its effectiveness as a journal of continuing education for North Carolina librarians in all types of libraries, and (2) the possible creation of a new organization outside of NCLA to represent the needs of school librarians. I would like to have the results of this membership survey before the Commission on School Librarians meets in the fall for perhaps its last meeting.
I feel that the futures of North Carolina Libraries and the currently structured North Carolina Association of School Librarians Section are uncertain. I do not feel comfortable making any decisions without the input of NCLA members.
New NCLA Policies
At the July Executive Board meeting, two new NCLA policies were approved. The first policy sets forth NCLA's commitment to non-discrimination and the second sets forth NCLA's right to approve beforehand all publications and other communications that use the NCLA name. The exact wording of the policies will appear in the NCLA minutes section of the Fall issue of North Carolina Libraries.
Resolution on Charter Schools
The Resolution on Charter Schools was not approved at the Executive Board meeting in July. The general consensus was that the Resolution did not include facts and figures to support the statements included. Patrick Valentine, Director of the Wilson County Public Library, will continue as chair of this committee. Other members include Marilyn Miller, Pauletta Bracy, Ben Speller, John Via, Ann Burlingame, Dave Fergusson, and Marian Lindsay. The committee will appreciate any input on this important issue that is not going away anytime soon. It is anticipated that the final product of the deliberations will be a position statement on charter schools for charter school officials themselves rather than a resolution to the NC Legislature.
Floyd Relief Continues
Since October 1999 gifts have continued to come into the NCLA office. Please continue to send your contributions to NCLA and note "Floyd Relief Fund" in the lower left-hand corner of your check. Send your checks to Maureen Costello, NCLA, 4646 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-4646.
Your Opinions Solicited
If you have comments or suggestions dealing with any of the above or just opinions on NCLA-related matters in general, please do not hesitate to e-mail me: pajones@catawba.edu.
--Plummer Alston "Al" Jones, Jr., President, NCLA
NCASL Conference - The "I's" Have It
The NCASL Conference will be September 13 - 15 in Winston-Salem at the Benton Convention Center and the Adam's Mark Hotel. Featured Pre-Conference speakers are Keith Curry Lance, Judy Freeman, and Michael Cart. Featured Conference speakers include Nancy Polette, Doug Johnson, Mary Downing Hahn, Jacqueline Woodson, Angela Shelf Medearis, Pamela Edwards, Henry Cole, David Warlick and Elizabeth Miller.
Copies of IMPACT will be provided by DPI for all School Library Media and Technology Specialists attending the NCASL Conference. IMPACT is a new publication from DPI for School Library Media Specialists and Technology Specialists in North Carolina. It is the latest edition of what was previously known as LEARNING CONNECTIONS. Frances Bradburn and staff will be presenting IMPACT for the first time at the Opening Session of the conference on Thursday, September 14.
Children's Services librarians are invited to attend the NCASL Conference. There are a large number of sessions that will be of interest to you including the pre-conference sessions of Judy Freeman and Michael Cart.
Over 80 vendors will be exhibiting at the NCASL Conference. All N.C. librarians are invited to visit the exhibits during the NCASL conference. There will be no charge. Please go to the NCASL conference registration desk during conference hours and you will be given an "Exhibits Only" badge.
For additional conference information, please visit the NCASL web site at http://www.ncasl.org.
--Karen Gavigan, President, NC Association of School Librarians
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History Online: A Practical Workshop for Digitization
History Online: A Practical Workshop for Digitization will be offered on two different dates and in two different locations. The workshop will be sponsored by the North Carolina Library Association's Round Table on Special Collections, North Carolina Preservation Consortium, and the Federation of North Carolina Historical Societies.
The first date this workshop will be offered is September 15th at Caldwell County Public Library in Lenoir, NC. The second date is October 6th at Lenoir Community College in Kinston, NC. There is a 30-person limit for each workshop.
Librarians, archivists, museum staff, and members of historical and genealogical societies who maintain content-driven websites will benefit from this workshop. The workshop will use examples of successful North Carolina digitization projects to illustrate the major factors cultural caretakers may wish to consider while planning a digitization project. It will also present North Carolina's preliminary standards and best practices for digitization.
The cost of the workshop is $25.00. Deadline for registration is one week prior to each workshop. Directions to and a map will be posted on the NCLA webpage http://www.nclaonline.org.
--Kevin Cherry, Chair, Round Table on Special Collections
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On September 23 through September 30, 2000, celebrate Banned Books Week - Fish in the River of Knowledge, Celebrate Your Freedom to Read.
Banned Books Week teaches the importance of our First Amendment rights and the power of literature and will draw attention to the danger that exists when restraints are imposed on the availability of information in a free society.
This year's graphics and other information on Banned Books Week 2000 can be found at:
Why Banned Books Week?
http://www.ala.org/bbooks/index.html
Challenged and Banned Books
http://www.ala.org/bbooks/challeng.html
Resource Guide
http://www.ala.org/bbooks/resource.html
--Don Wood, ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom
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The North Carolina State University Libraries, Office of the Provost, and Scholarly Communication Subcommittee of the University Library Committee are pleased to invite you to this year's Scholarly Communication Colloquium, "Reinventing the Knowledge Wheel: Leading the Revolution in Ownership and Management of Scholarship." It will take place on Thursday, October 5, 2000, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the McKimmon Center on the NC State campus in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Our morning sessions will focus on alternatives to traditional print publishing and will feature three outstanding innovators in this area: James G. Neal (Dean of University Libraries, Johns Hopkins University), speaking on the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC); Michael L. Rosenzweig (University of Arizona), who is editor-in-chief of Evolutionary Ecology Research, a print and electronic publication; and Richard Lucier (Executive Director and Founding University Librarian of the California Digital Library).
The afternoon will be spent exploring copyright ownership issues in higher education, led by two articulate and knowledgeable speakers: David Shulenburger (Provost, University of Kansas), speaking on the AAU Intellectual Property Task Force report; and Dan L. Burk (Professor of Law, University of Minnesota), addressing ownership of electronic course materials in higher education. Two panel discussions will follow, featuring area faculty and administrators including Kermit Hall (Provost, NC State), Gretchen Bataille (Vice President of Academic Affairs, UNC-GA), Laura Gasaway (Director, Law Library, UNC-CH), Risa Palm (Dean, Arts and Sciences, UNC-CH), Benjamin Speller (Dean, NCCU School of Library and Information Sciences), David Danehower (Associate Professor, NC State), and Peggy Hoon (Scholarly Communication Librarian, NCSU Libraries).
All sessions are free and open to all. Free parking will be available at the McKimmon Center. To help us prepare for the event, please notify Annis Barbee (919-513-2046 / annis_barbee@ncsu.edu or return the form below.
_____ Yes, I will be attending the Scholarly Communication Colloquium on October 5, 2000, at the McKimmon Center.
Name: ___________________________
E-mail: ___________________________
Please return to Annis Barbee, NCSU Libraries, Box 7111, NC State Campus.
For further colloquium details, please visit http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/scc/colloquium.html.
--Jinnie Y. Davis, North Carolina State University Libraries
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The biennial conference will be held October 11-13 at Jekyll Island, Georgia. Links have been established on the SELA website (http://www.seflin.org/sela) for the preliminary conference program schedule and for hotel information. Conference registration information should be available on the website soon. It is likely that the registration fee will be approximately $100.
Among the programs at the conference will be a session comparing Georgia's GALILEO, NC LIVE and other statewide database systems in the Southeast and a "showcase" of new public library buildings in the Southeast.
The conference will be a joint event with Georgia's Council of Media Organizations, which includes the Georgia Library Association. Anyone calling for room reservations should mention the "COMO" Conference in order to get the conference rate.
NCLA's SELA Representative has booked a suite at the Ramada Inn at Jekyll Island to serve as a "hospitality center" for North Carolinians attending the conference.
The Holiday Inn is the conference headquarters facility.
NC Candidate for SELA President-Elect
John Via has been nominated to run for the office of President-Elect of SELA. He will be posting an action agenda which can lead to a "reinvention" of SELA for the 21st century, and will be asking North Carolina librarians for their support in the campaign.
The other candidate for the position will be Ann Hamilton of Georgia Southern University.
The full slate of candidates for office, including secretary and treasurer, is being finalized. It will be posted on NCLA-L when it is complete.
Proposed African American Issues Round Table
The proposed African American Issues Round Table, which is intended to begin to address the under-representation of African Americans in SELA, still requires more petition signatures before it can become an official part of SELA. Any SELA member who has not yet endorsed this proposal and wishes to do so may contact John Via at viaje@forsyth.lib.nc.us.
--John Via, SELA Representative
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RTSS & CUS Workshop - The License Process: We Promised to Do What?
"The License Process: We Promised to Do What?" aptly describes the upcoming workshop co-sponsored by the Resources and Technical Services Section and the College and University Section of NCLA. The workshop will be held at the Greensboro Public Library on Friday, October 13, 2000, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Co-presenters at the workshop will be Amy Dykeman, Director of Collection Management Services, SOLINET, and Larry Alford, Deputy University Librarian, UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries. The workshop will be relevant for a wide range of libraries and departments within those libraries, including reference, acquisitions, collection development, access services, systems, cataloging, and administration. Additional information and registration forms will be posted soon at the RTSS home page at http://www.unc.edu/~ldsmith/rtss/rtsshome.htm. Also, watch for information in the mail and via NCLA-L. Registration is limited to the first 100 participants. Join us, then, on October 13th at the Greensboro Public Library to learn more about license issues in libraries.
--Teresa McManus, Chair & Margaret Foote, Vice-Chair, Resources and Technical Services Section
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RASS Workshop - Virtual Patrons: Finding Them, Reaching Them, Serving Them
Wondering how to help those patrons who access your library from their homes or offices? On Friday, October 27, join a discussion of this new challenge in our outreach efforts, during the Reference and Adult Services Section's workshop entitled, "Virtual Patrons: Finding Them, Reaching Them, Serving Them."
Scheduled from 9:30 to 12:30 at the Greensboro Public Library, the workshop will feature speakers from both public and academic library settings. Registration brochures will be sent to all RASS members in September. If you are interested but not a RASS member, contact Joline Ezzell joline.ezzell@duke.edu - 919-660-5925.
--Joline Ezzell, Reference and Adult Services Section
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Children's Services Section Off Year Conference - Storytelling and Beyond: Incorporating the Arts into Programming
The Children's Services Section will hold their Fall Retreat - "Storytelling and Beyond: Incorporating the Arts into Programming" on October 30 and 31 in Brown Summit, NC. Presenters include Laura Boosinger-award winning performer and recording artist, Hobie Ford-puppeteer extraordinaire and Brian Sturm-Professor UNC School of Library and Information Science. The goal is to talk about the arts and enhancing storytimes with music, storytelling and puppets. Fees are for meals and double room-$90.00 and single is $110.00.
--Ann Burlingame, Chair, Children's Services Section
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Documents Section Fall Workshop
The Documents Section will hold their Fall Workshop on November 17th at McKimmon Center on the campus of North Carolina State University in Raleigh. Mark your calendars! More information will be forthcoming.
The School of Information and Library Science (SILS) proudly announces its Fall 2000 slate of continuing education offerings. This fall, four Info to Go programs will be conducted covering a variety of interesting and timely topics. For more information, or to register online, visit http://ils.unc.edu/ils/continuing_ed/infotogo/fall00.html. The cost for each program varies. Current SILS students may attend Info to Go programs, if space is available.
"Electronic Business for Information Professionals"
Fri., Sept. 22
9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Manning Hall
Cost: $70 (student rate: $40)
"Send in the Clowns: Enhancing Children's Programs and Storytelling through Clowning"
Fri., Oct. 20
9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Manning Hall
Cost: $80 (student rate: $50)
(Cost for this program includes makeup kit.)
"Issues for the Rural Library"
Fri., Nov. 3
9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Manning Hall
Cost: $70 (student rate: $40)
"Effective Leadership for a Changing World"
Fri., Nov. 10
9 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Manning Hall
Cost: $55 (student rate: $30)
--Gerald Holmes, UNC Greensboro
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The North Carolina Center for the Book now has a homepage featuring information on local programs and statewide projects. Check it out! http://statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us/ld/nccftb/cftb.htm
--Frances Ashburn, Director, North Carolina Center for the Book
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Thanks to wonderful work by Larry Alford and Julie Nye, I just signed the agreement with SOLINET/netLibrary to provide access to the SOLINET netLibrary resources for all the 187 participating NC LIVE institutions. The almost $290,000 in funding is being provided from the Library Services and Technology Act funds administered by the State Library.
Two statewide consortia in the Southeast (NC LIVE and GALILEO) are participating--but NC LIVE is the largest single group. The two consortia are about 1/3 of the 1.5 million FTE participating.
SOLINET will return the Letters of Intent signed by any individual North Carolina institutions--all who enrolled were NC LIVE libraries.
Details about the agreement and the start date will follow as we complete all the details. If you would like more information, please contact the person who represents your "community of interest" on the NC LIVE Librarians Working Group (Community Colleges: Beverley Gass; Independent Colleges: Leland Park; Public Universities: Susan Nutter; Public Libraries: Jerry Thrasher).
--Sandy Cooper, State Librarian, State Library of North Carolina
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Don't forget! A new type of area code is coming!
The new area code 980 will be a "10-digit dialing overlay" covering the same geographic area as the existing 704 area code. Customers residing within the 704/980 area code will need to dial 10 digits to anyone else within that 704/980 area code whenever they make a local or expanded local call, even if it is to someone with the same 704 or 980 area code in their own neighborhood. Callers can begin using the new 10-digit dialing immediately. However, after January 10, 2001, all local calls and expanded local calls within the area code will have to be placed using the new method of 10-digit dialing.
Spread the word with all friends and family to make sure they are aware of the change taking place. Make sure that any equipment which requires programming is updated to show the new area code: telephones with automatic dialers, Private Branch Exchange (PBX) Systems, modems, Internet connections, fax machines "smart phones", and so on.
--Maureen Costello, Administrative Assistant, NCLA
The Children's Services Section met on August 23 in Winston-Salem to make the final preparations for the Fall Retreat - "Storytelling and Beyond: Incorporating the Arts into Programming." Presenters include Laura Boosinger-award winning performer and recording artist, Hobie Ford-puppeteer extraordinaire and Brian Sturm-Professor UNC School of Library and Information Science. The goal is to talk about the arts and enhancing storytimes with music, storytelling and puppets. The retreat is scheduled for October 30 and 31 in Brown Summit, NC. Fees are for meals and double room-$90.00 and single is $110.00.
--Ann Burlingame, Chair, Children's Services Section
College and University Section
See Resources and Technical Services Section for information about a shared workshop.
The Documents Section will hold their Fall Workshop on November 17th at McKimmon Center on the campus of North Carolina State University in Raleigh. Mark your calendars. More information will be forthcoming.
North Carolina Association of School Librarians
The NCASL Conference will be September 13 - 15 in Winston-Salem at the Benton Convention Center and the Adam's Mark Hotel. Featured Pre-Conference speakers are Keith Curry Lance, Judy Freeman, and Michael Cart. Featured Conference speakers include Nancy Polette, Doug Johnson, Mary Downing Hahn, Jacqueline Woodson, Angela Shelf Medearis, Pamela Edwards, Henry Cole, David Warlick and Elizabeth Miller.
Copies of IMPACT will be provided by DPI for all School Library Media and Technology Specialists attending the NCASL Conference. IMPACT is a new publication from DPI for School Library Media Specialists and Technology Specialists in North Carolina. It is the latest edition of what was previously known as LEARNING CONNECTIONS. Frances Bradburn and staff will be presenting IMPACT for the first time at the Opening Session of the conference on Thursday, September 14.
Children's Services librarians are invited to attend the NCASL Conference. There are a large number of sessions that will be of interest to you including the pre-conference sessions of Judy Freeman and Michael Cart.
Over 80 vendors will be exhibiting at the NCASL Conference. All N.C. librarians are invited to visit the exhibits during the NCASL conference. There will be no charge. Please go to the NCASL conference registration desk during conference hours and you will be given an "Exhibits Only" badge.
For additional conference information, please visit the NCASL web site at http://www.ncasl.org.
The NCASL Board last met on Friday, July 28 in High Point. The next meeting of the NCASL Board will be held on Monday, October 2 in Garner.
--Karen Gavigan, President, NCASL
The next meeting of the Executive Board for the Public Library Section is scheduled for Monday, September 18, 11 AM in Asheville, hosted by Ed Sheary. (This is just prior to the 100th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Wolfe - October 3.)
--John Zika, Chair, Public Library Section
Reference and Adult Services Section
Spotlight on Virtual Patrons
Wondering how to help those patrons who access your library from their homes or offices? On Friday, October 27, join a discussion of this new challenge in our outreach efforts, during the Reference and Adult Services Section's workshop entitled, "Virtual Patrons: Finding Them, Reaching Them, Serving Them."
Scheduled from 9:30 to 12:30 at the Greensboro Public Library, the workshop will feature speakers from both public and academic library settings. Registration brochures will be sent to all RASS members in September. If you are interested but not a RASS member, contact Joline Ezzell joline.ezzell@duke.edu - 919-660-5925.
--Joline Ezzell, Reference and Adult Services Section
Resources and Technical Services Section
"The License Process: We Promised to Do What?" aptly describes the upcoming workshop co-sponsored by the Resources and Technical Services Section and the College and University Section of NCLA. The workshop will be held at the Greensboro Public Library on Friday, October 13, 2000, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Co-presenters at the workshop will be Amy Dykeman, Director of Collection Management Services, SOLINET, and Larry Alford, Deputy University Librarian, UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries. The workshop will be relevant for a wide range of libraries and departments within those libraries, including reference, acquisitions, collection development, access services, systems, cataloging, and administration. Additional information and registration forms will be posted soon at the RTSS home page at http://www.unc.edu/~ldsmith/rtss/rtsshome.htm. Also, watch for information in the mail and via NCLA-L. Registration is limited to the first 100 participants. Join us, then, on October 13th at the Greensboro Public Library to learn more about license issues in libraries.
--Teresa McManus, Chair & Margaret Foote, Vice-Chair, Resources and Technical Services Section
Round Table on Special Collections
History Online: A Practical Workshop for Digitization will be offered on two different dates and in two different locations. The workshop will be sponsored by the North Carolina Library Association's Round Table on Special Collections, The North Carolina Preservation Consortium, and the Federation of North Carolina Historical Societies.
The first date this workshop will be offered is September 15th at Caldwell County Public Library in Lenoir, NC. The second date is October 6th at Lenoir Community College in Kinston, NC. There is a 30-person limit for each workshop.
Librarians, archivists, museum staff, and members of historical and genealogical societies who maintain content-driven websites will benefit from this workshop. The workshop will use examples of successful North Carolina digitization projects to illustrate the major factors cultural caretakers may wish to consider while planning a digitization project. It will also present North Carolina's preliminary standards and best practices for digitization.
The cost of the workshop is $25.00. Deadline for registration is one week prior to each workshop. Directions to and a map will be posted on the NCLA webpage http://www.nclaonline.org.
--Kevin Cherry, Chair, Round Table on Special Collections
Round Table on the Status of Women in Librarianship
The Round Table on the Status of Women in Librarianship held a workshop with Dr. Dudley Shearburn, retired professor of Women's Studies from Salem College, as the speaker on August 11th in Winston-Salem. Dr. Shearburn spoke on "Career Crossroads or Life's a Trip."
--Laura Weigand, Chair, Round Table on the Status of Women in Librarianship
Intellectual Freedom Committee
"Intellectual Freedom is the right of every individual to both seek and receive information from all points of view without restriction. It provides for free access to all expressions of ideas through which any and all sides of a question, cause or movement may be explored." -- Intellectual Freedom and Censorship Q & A http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/intellectualfreedomandcensorship.html. (Don Wood, ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom)
"When planning your program for an exhibit during Banned Books Week, or at any other time in 2000-2001, you may wish to consider including the new edition of the exhibit, Censorship in Schools and Libraries, published by the Long Island Coalition Against Censorship.
"The exhibit presents 28 illustrations, each one approximately 11" x 14" with accompanying text that is 11" x 14". The history of censorship in public schools and libraries highlights incidents of censorship that have occurred in the United States during the last one hundred years. Included are descriptions of the censorship of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, In the Night Kitchen, The Catcher in the Rye, and the novels of Judy Blume and Robert Cormier. U.S. Supreme Court and lower court decisions are an integral part of the exhibit.
"The new edition includes efforts to censor the popular Harry Potter's children's books and the installation of filtering software in computers in the Loudoun County, Virginia Public Library. Besides five additional cases, there is an update of censorship incidents in libraries and schools that occurred throughout the 1990s. Quality copies of the exhibit have been reproduced which may be readily displayed in the library on poster boards and retained as a reference source.
"If you are interested in having a copy, the cost including mailing charges is $35.00. An e-mail order to dep1820@juno.com is acceptable or a purchase order to LICAC, P.O. Box 296, Pt. Washington, NY 11050." (Donald Parker, Co-coordinator of the Long Island Coalition Against Censorship)
If you have a title challenged in your library, please alert the NCLA Intellectual Freedom Committee. There is an electronic Challenge Report Form on the Internet to make such reports easy at: http://www.cumberland.lib.nc.us/IF-Form.htm.
Your report will be kept confidential if you wish. Reporting challenges will help the Committee alert the rest of the North Carolina library community of what is happening so they can be prepared for similar challenges.
Call or email Jerry if you need additional information, thrasher@cumberland.lib.nc.us.
--Jerry Thrasher, Chair, Intellectual Freedom Committee
NCLA has purchased a light-weight, tri-fold display for use by the NCLA membership. The table-top display has wine-colored panels on a black frame with plush loop velcro and measures 72" in width and 36" in height. The NCLA office will coordinate the scheduling and guidelines for usage of the display. Make plans now to utilize this in your promotional efforts at conferences, workshops, recruiting trips, etc.
--Peggy Quinn, Chair, Membership Committee
Angela N. Wilson, Document Delivery Library Assistant, Z. Smith Reynolds Library, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC is the recipient of the North Carolina Library Association Memorial Scholarship for the year 2000. The NCLA Memorial Scholarship is awarded to a student entering library school, currently enrolled in library school or to a practicing librarian to continue his or her studies. Ms. Wilson will receive a check for $1,000 to assist her studies in the Library and Information Studies program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Emily Stroud Andrews, Teacher, Jones Middle School, Jones County Public Schools, Trenton, NC is the recipient of the North Carolina Library Association Query - Long Scholarship for the year 2000. With special emphasis on work with children or young adults, the NCLA Query - Long Scholarship is awarded to a student entering library school, currently enrolled in library school or to a practicing librarian to continue his or her studies. Ms. Andrews will receive a check for $1,000 to assist her studies in the Master of Library Science program at East Carolina University.
Two students are also in the process of acquiring McLendon Loans.
--Gerald Holmes, Chair, Scholarships Committee
Upcoming Reviews in the Fall Issue of North Carolina Libraries
Carole Watterson Troxler & William Murray Vincent. Shuttle & Plow: A History of Alamance County, North Carolina. Alamance County Historical Association, Inc., 7519-C Lindley Mill Rd., Graham, NC 27253, 1999. 541 pp. Cloth, $40.00, includes tax, shipping, and handling. No ISBN. Review by Al Jones, Catawba College.
Charles Royster. The Fabulous History of the Great Dismal Swamp Company. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1999. 622 pp. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN 0-679-43345-7. Review by John Welch, State Library.
John C. Inscoe & Gordon B. McKinney. The Heart of Confederate Appalachia: Western North Carolina in the Civil War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. 368 pp. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 0-8078-2544-1. Review by John Welch, State Library.
Judy Goldman. The Slow Way Back. New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1999. 274 pp. Cloth, $24.00. ISBN 0-688-16598-2. Review by Caroline Keizer, UNCCH.
Sharon Ann Holt. Making Freedom Pay: North Carolina Freedpeople Working for Themselves 1865-1900. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2000. 188 pp. Cloth, $30.00. ISBN 0-8203-2170-2. Review by Dr. Patrick Valentine, Wilson Public Library.
Julie Fleming. Moving Lila. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. 212 pp., Cloth, $22.95. ISBN 0-312-24409-6. Review by Joan Ferguson, UNCCH.
Dirk Frankenberg, Editor. Exploring North Carolina's Natural Areas. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. 412 pp. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 0-8078-2547-6. Paper, $18.95. ISBN 0-8078-4851-4. Review by Joline Ezzell, Duke University.
Ralph Grizzle. Remembering Charles Kuralt. Asheville, NC: Kenilworth Media, 2000. 259 pp. Cloth, $25.00. ISBN 0-9679096-0-0. Review by Suzanne Wise, ASU.
Douglas M. Orr, Jr. & Alfred W. Stuart, Editors. The North Carolina Atlas: Portrait for a New Century. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. 461 pp. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 0-8078-2507-7. Review by Mike Van Fossen, UNCCH.
William J. Billingsley. Communists on Campus: Race, Politics, and the Public University in Sixties North Carolina. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1999. 308 pp. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 0820321095. Review by John Zika, PLCMC.
Ashley Warlick. The Summer After June. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin Co., 2000. 254 pp. $23.00. ISBN 0395926904. Review by Samantha Hunt, NHCPL.
Joanne Martell. Millie-Christine: Fearfully and Wonderfully Made. Winston-Salem: John F. Blair, Publisher, 2000. 294 pp. Cloth, $17.95. ISBN 0-89587-194-7. Paper, $12.95. ISBN 0-89587-188-2, and
Darin Strauss. Chang and Eng. New York: Dutton, 2000. 323 pp. Cloth, $23.95. ISBN 0-525-94512-1. Review by John Ansley, Durham Public Library.
Ross Yockey. McColl:The Man with America's Money. Marietta, GA: Longstreet, Inc., 1999. 636 pp. $40.00. ISBN 1-56352-539-9. Review by Bryna Coonin, ECU.
Nancy Peacock. Home Across the Road. Atlanta: Longstreet Press, 1999. 249 pp. Cloth, $26.95. ISBN 1-56352-509-7. Review by Laura Baxley, UNCCH.
Fred Chappell. Look Back All the Green Valleys. New York: Picador, USA, 1999. 288 pp. Cloth, $24.00. ISBN 0312242158. Review by Dorothy Hodder, NHCPL.
Steven Sherrill. The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break. Winston-Salem: John F. Blair, Publisher, 2000. 313 pp. Cloth, $19.95. ISBN 0-89587-197-1. Review by Kevin Cherry, State Library.
Timothy B. Tyson. Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. 402 pp. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 0-8078-2502-6. Review by Kathleen Murray, Queens College.
Tony Earley. Jim the Boy. Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 2000. 227 pp. Paper, $23.95. ISBN 0-316-19964-8. Review by Dorothy Hodder, NHCPL.
Lake Mattamuskeet: New Holland and Hyde County [Images of America Series]. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 1999. 128 pp. $18.99 + $3.00 shipping and handling. ISBN 0738502715.
Booknotes on new North Carolina publications:
Dr. John M. Hall, a dentist in Clarkton, North Carolina, writes about surviving and transcending a childhood of physical and emotional abuse in Betrayal and Escape. This highly personal account will inspire and affirm other survivors. (2000, Vantage Press, Inc., 516 West 34th Street, New York, New York 10001. 286 pp. Paper, $13.95. ISBN 0-533-13228-2).
Marimar McNaughton. Outer Banks Architecture. (2000, John F. Blair, Publisher, 1406 Plaza Drive, Winston-Salem, NC 27103. 114 pp. Paper, $14.95. ISBN 0-89587-192-0).
Dennis M. Conrad, Editor. The Papers of General Nathanael Greene. (2000, University of North Carolina Press, P. O. Box 2288, Chapel Hill, NC 27515-2288. 811 pp. Cloth, $95.00 ISBN 0-8-78-2551-4).
Allen Paul Speer with Janet Barton Speer. Sisters of Providence: The Search for God in the Frontier South (1834-1858). The letters and diaries of two sisters living in the western Piedmont of North Carolina before the Civil War provide a window on their spiritual, intellectual, and social lives. (2000, The Overmountain Press, Johnson City, TN. 290 pp. Paper, $19.95. ISBN 1-57072-158-0).
Arlyn and Matthew J. Bruccoli. O Lost: A Story of the Buried Life. Centennary edition of the original, unabridged version of the novel that the world knows as Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel. (2000, University of South Carolina Press. 65 pp. Paper, $29.95. ISBN 1-57003-369-2).
David Cecelski. A Historian's Coast, Adventures into the Tidewater Past. (2000, John F. Blair, Publisher, 1406 Plaza Drive, Winston-Salem, NC 27103. 184 pp. Paper, $16.95. ISBN 0-89587-189-0).
Robert S. Neale. The Bank of Cape Fear of Wilmington, North Carolina. (1999, The Lower Cape Fear Historical Society, The Latimer House, 126 South Third Street, Wilmington, NC 18401. 130 pp. $15.00. ISBN 0-967-3815-2-5.
Vision Quest: A Visual Journey through North Carolina's Lower Roanoke River Basin, is a labor of love and three years' work by Carl V. Galie, Jr. The project was funded by an Emerging Artist Grant from the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Arts Council. In four brief essays and a series of truly luminous, breathtaking, mostly full-page photographs, Galie makes an impassioned case for conservation of an area the Nature Conservancy has designated as one of the "Last Great Places." A map of the area in question decorates the back cover of the dust jacket. (1998, Red Maple Press, P. O. Box 20143, Winston-Salem, NC 27120. Unpaginated, about 80 pp. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 0-9669876-0-8).
Marianne Gingher, author and writing professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has compiled a whimsical list of instructions on How to Have a Happy Childhood. Illustrated with family photographs and graphics, the text is a mixture of the philosophical (reason not to kill a black widow spider: "Smashing something you fear is always less illuminating than learning to live in proximity with its tiny wicked strategies."), the sentimental ("Have a best friend and love her for how she brings out the best in you."), the practical ("Your brothers will want to play Fifty-Two Card Pickup, but don't agree to it ..."), and the mischievous (" ... pretend that the kitchen counter-tops are cliffs or mountain tops. Scale them in your bare feet.") Children's collections may find a place for this small volume, but its primary use will be as a gift. (2000, Zuckerman Cannon Publishers, distributed by John F. Blair, Publisher, Winston-Salem 27103. Unpaginated, about 60 pp. Cloth, $16.00. ISBN 0-9664316-1-8).
Ralph Kirshner. The Class of 1861: Custer, Ames, and their Classmates after West Point. (1999, Southern Illinois University Press, P. O. Box 3697, Carbondale, IL 69202-3697. 224 pp. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN 0-8093-2066.5).
Garold L. Cole. Civil War Eyewitnesses: An Annotated Bibliography of Books and Articles 1986-1996. (2000, University of South Carolina Press, 937 Assembly Street, Carolina Plaza, 8th Floor, Columbia, South Carolina 29208. 271 pp., Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 1-57003-327-7).
Alan Stoudemire. A Place at the Table. Atlanta: Cherokee Publishing Company, 2000. 260 pp. Cloth, $26.95. ISBN 0-87797-287-7. A memoir of an interracial friendship between two boys growing up in Lincolnton, North Carolina.
Christopher Camuto. Another Country: Journeying Toward the Cherokee Mountains. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2000. 351 pp. Paper, $16.95. ISBN 0-8203-2237-7. Originally published by Henry Holt in 1997, and previously reviewed in North Carolina Libraries, Spring 1998.
Thomas H. Thornburg. An Introduction to Law for North Carolinians. (2000, Institute of Government, C.B. 3330 Knapp Building, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3330. 23 pp. Paper, $11.00. ISBN 1-56011-374-X).
David M. Lawrence. Economic Development Law for North Carolina Local Governments. (2000, Institute of Government, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3330. 185pp. Paper. ISBN 1-56011-364-2).
William A. Campbell. North Carolina Guidebook for Registers of Deeds. (2000, Institute of Government, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3330. 199 pp. Paper. ISBN 1-56011-353-7.
--Dorothy Hodder, Book Review Column Compiler, North Carolina Libraries
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